Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four weeks ago, at exactly the two thirds point of the school year, my six-person roomming group engaged in its biannual migration. As part of some "tacit" agreement I supposedly made in September, I was cruelly expropriated from my secluded single down the hall and relocated into a double directly off the common room...
...fusses with a model's hair. He directs a seamstress to stitch a new lining in a fur cape. Three minutes before showtime, Kelly joins hands with everyone for a revival-style prayer: "Thank God for making us be together," he says. "You make me so happy." The group bursts into cheers of "Yay! Yay!" and the music flicks on to the opening song, Real Love...
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Margaret Thatcher's England...
...farm country, Hightower has become a hotly controversial figure because of his impassioned attacks on pesticides and corporate agriculture in general. Delegates of the Texas Farm Bureau, a privately supported business group, met in Waco last week for a special session in which they railed against Hightower. They were joined by an array of cattlemen, grain-elevator operators and pesticide makers, who charged that Hightower is pursuing political ambitions instead of looking after the state's farmers. But supporters of small-farm interests rallied just as staunchly to his defense. Said Joe Rankin, president of the Texas Farmers Union...
...troops are mired in the unending civil war in Lebanon, where 13 Western hostages are being held. Against his wishes, p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat has recognized Israel's right to exist. The U.S. and Britain chastise him for harboring a Palestinian guerrilla group, some of whose members are leading suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Yet Syria's wily President Hafez Assad appeared unruffled and even jovial last week, as he maneuvered through the region's perilous political landscape for three hours in a rare interview with TIME Assistant Managing Editors Karsten Prager and John F. Stacks...